Friday, December 14, 2012
Belmont resident hopes to recreate singing tradition from her Connecticut home to here.
Amanda Rettig fondly remembers how groups of friends and families would go caroling – walking around town singing Christmas songs – through her Connecticut home town, a holiday tradition that united the community with the holiday spirit. Now living in Belmont with her husband and children, Rettig is hoping to bring the same holiday cheer to her new home. Rettig is putting together a plan for caroling in Belmont Center next to the Christmas tree on Leonard Street on Saturday, Dec. 15, at 4 p.m. The list of carols and songs is below. It will be strictly BYOL – bring your own lyrics – so print them out or bring along your Kindle, iPhone or iPad. You can find the words to the music on the Caroling Corner website. "Be geared toward families …
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Bank of America
72 Leonard St, Belmont, MA
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Monday, December 3, 2012
Participating Belmont shops will be open from 6 p.m. to midnight tonight.
Tonight, with Leonard Street a glow, holiday revelers will have the chance to indulge in seasonal refreshments while shopping with friends and family at their favorite local stores as small businesses businesses in Belmont Center will participate in the third-annual "Midnight Madness" event. Starting at 6 p.m. and continuing until midnight, most participating businesses will be offering hourly increases in their markdowns. This event has been a great success in years past because in addition to the great shopping experience, shoppers enjoy holiday celebration and merriment while mingling with friends and neighbors over hot cider and festive treats. In addition to supporting the local economy, the shop owners embrace this event as an …
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Belmont Center Business Association
56 Leonard St, Belmont, MA
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Center's Craft Beer Cellar to work to promote artisan drinks in state. Nationwide? Well.
Before friends, fans and beer lovers, Suzanne Schalow reminisced a little on Tuesday, remembering the day nearly two years ago when she and her partner, Kate Baker, worried that their dream of spreading the word about craft beer from a store in Belmont would be ignored. But on that first day, she recalled, 35 people stood on the sidewalk, waiting for the doors to open for the first time at Craft Beer Cellar on Leonard Street. "That's when I knew we had something that would grow," said Schalow to Belmont Patch. And since the opening, the store has thrived as it has become a mecca for patrons of artisan beers, stocking more than 1,100 small craft beers, most from US and New England brewers. So, Schalow said at the Tuesday gathering, it's …
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Craft Beer Cellar
51 Leonard St, Belmont, MA
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Christopher Cho's third restaurant is Belmont's first fast food store.
It's been nine months since he came before the Belmont Zoning Board of Appeals, months of outfitting the site of the former TCBY space, and weeks of training a new staff and last minute permits and inspections. Finally, today at 8 a.m., Christopher Cho will open the doors to Subway Restaurant's 37,187th store worldwide but Belmont's first ever fast food restaurant. This is Cho's third Subway franchise that he owns in the area – the others are in Somerville and Sturbridge – which is a departure from his previous work as a consultant for a merger-and-acquisition firm for this Dartmouth and Ross Business School (University of Michigan) grad. The native of the Buffalo, NY region was looking for businesses for his clients to buy as investments …
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59 Leonard St, Belmont, MA
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Friday, June 15, 2012
Arlington-based bakery to open third shop in former Frankie's Catch of the Day.
Where once salmon, lobster and scallops were sold, Belmont shoppers will have the opportunity to purchase world-class breakfast baked goods, barista coffees and teas and homemade goodies as Quebrada Baking Company transforms the long-time Frankie's Catch of the Day into a high-end bakery, according to town officials. The East Arlington-based retail bakery and cafe company, now in its 35th year, has begun talks with the town's Health Department to create its third shop – its current locations are in East Arlington (208 Massachusetts Ave. on the same block as the Capitol Theater) and Wellesley Hills (272 Washington St.) – at 19 Leonard St. at the corner of Channing Road. The 650-square-foot store front commercial space is undergoing $2,000 …
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19 Leonard St, Belmont, MA
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Ten days of repairs on Leonard Street begins a day after summer begins.
You won't be able to celebrate the first full day of summer with a cooling frappuccino in Belmont Center. Due to issues with its plumbing and refrigeration units, Starbucks has pushed up by nearly two months the scheduled renovation of its store on Leonard Street. The location is now scheduled to close on Friday, June 22 for 10 days, opening the week of the July 4th holiday. The coffee shop at 47 Leonard St. is a decade old and was placed on the list of locations across the country to undergo a near-gut rehab and be supplied a new updated look. But since the news came out, the store has had to closed one of the two restrooms due to plumbing problems as the refrigeration equipment has been needing frequent repairs. Rather than committing …
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Starbucks Coffee
47 Leonard St, Belmont, MA
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Alchemy 9.2.5, Belmont Center's newest jewelers, is co-owned by Belmont's Munya Upin.
In the 1930s, anthropologists dug up a matched set of sea shells in a South African cave. The ocean, they noted, was many miles away and the type of mollusk not a food source. The scientists assumed that whoever brought them back must have found the shells beautiful. Seventeen of the shells had been perforated, as if to be strung. The holes in the shells also showed wear from twine or leather. The conclusion: 100,000 years ago, one of our ancestors collected the shells for a necklace, to wear or give to someone else. The scientists suspect that the find is the earliest example of jewelry. As anniversaries, birthdays or holidays like Mother’s Day approach, shoppers will be looking for symbols of esteem and affection beyond what they can …
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48 Leonard St, Belmont, MA
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Monday, May 7, 2012
"Family" store across from Macy's will be before Zoning Board for hearing.
It was before 9 a.m., Monday, May 7, and Miroslav Rahnev had already finished with one customer and had two others waiting their turn at his small barbershop, KOCA Barbershop, located at 80 Leonard St. in Belmont Center. The master barber, who has operated his business for the past four years, said he has a successful operation at the busy commercial center. Rahnev is now looking to use his entrepreneurial talents and open a new coffee shop in his current store directly across for Macy's near the corner of Alexander Avenue. The Belmont resident will come before the Zoning Board of Appeals tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Beech Street Center to seek permission to open a "family-run" shop run by his wife, Maria, at the location of the barbershop…
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80 Leonard St, Belmont, MA
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Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Part of nation-wide program to spruce up long-opened stores.
Coffee aficionados who congregate at Starbucks' Belmont Center location will need to find some other place to get their Mocha Cookie Crumble Frappuccino fix for at least a week-and-a-half in August as the location undergoes extensive renovations, according to Starbucks staff. The coffee shop at 47 Leonard St. in the heart of Belmont Center is more than 10 years old and is on a list of locations across the country to be given a near-gut rehab and a new updated look. Customers and residents will be greeted with new wood-like chocolate-colored flooring and large coffee murals along the wall. A large supporting pillar near the serving area will be pushed back and the working area will be expanded so servers have room to work. There will be new…
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Starbucks Coffee
47 Leonard St, Belmont, MA
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Social media spreads word as teens and youngsters head to team dinner at il Casale.
Blame Tyler Seguin. The young (he's just 20, everyone) Boston Bruin scoring star tweeted (@tylerseguin92) that he was heading to a team dinner before the "real" season – the playoffs – begin. Someone discovered through the social media world of Facebook and twitter that the dinner was taking place in Belmont, at the critically-acclaimed il Casale in the Center. That was retweeted and businesses in town began twittering the scene happening around 7 p.m. And before you could say Mark Zuckerberg, a crowd of Bruins fans, hockey players and teen age girls were outside Chef Dante de Magistris' restaurant waiting for their favorites to walk through a gauntlet of screams, hands and cellphone cameras to SUVs or a team bus waiting along Leonard …
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Il Casale
50 Leonard St, Belmont, MA
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Peggy Pelrine
8:32 am on Monday, August 6, 2012
Thank you for just being here!! Peggy more ›